Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
By: Dave Jacke , Eric Toensmeier
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Edible Forest Gardens" is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key co…
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1. Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
By: Jeff Lowenfels , Wayne Lewis
4.41
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with lif… read more
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- ecology
- agriculture
- gardening
- nonfiction
- reference
- science
"If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time."-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Without this [Soil Food Web system of bacteria, fungi etc], most important nutrients would drain from soil. Instead, they are retained in the bodies of soil life. Here is the gardener's truth: when y…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
"Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound togeth…"-Jeff Lowenfels, Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
2. Walden
By: Henry David Thoreau
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more
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- nonfiction
3. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes"-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
4. How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
By: John Jeavons
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES shows how to produce a… read more
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- agriculture
- gardening
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- reference
5. Edible Forest Gardens, Volume 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture
By: Dave Jacke , Eric Toensmeier
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Edible Forest Gardens" is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key co… read more
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- ecology
- agriculture
- gardening
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- reference
- science
6. Grow a Little Fruit Tree: Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees
By: None
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Grow your own apples, plums, cherries, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Expert pruner Ann… read more
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7. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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8. The Tao of Pooh
By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
"I think, therefore I am... confused."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
9. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
By: Christopher W. Alexander , None , None , None , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the core of A Pattern Languageis the philosophy that in designing their environments people alwa… read more
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10. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more
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11. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more
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12. Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture
By: Toby Hemenway
4.00
Format: None pages,
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13. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
By: None , Becky Chambers
4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more
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"We're our own warning."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"If you never leave, you'll always wonder. You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
14. Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
By: Eric Toensmeier , Jonathan Bates
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachu… read more
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15. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- ecology
- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
16. This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
17. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
By: Becky Chambers
4.20
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more
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"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
18. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.35
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more
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- gardening
- ecology
- nonfiction
- science
19. Wilding
By: Isabella Tree
4.46
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more
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- ecology
- science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"-Isabella Tree, Wilding
20. The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening
By: Jesse Frost
4.51
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening—for healthier, more productive so… read more
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- agriculture
- gardening
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- science
21. The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Security
By: Eric Toensmeier
4.40
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical pa… read more
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- ecology
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